--- title: Lyrid Meteor Shower: Here's What You Need to Know description: The annual Lyrid meteor shower happens from April 16 to 25, but the best time to see it will be right before dawn on April 22 and April 23. canonical: https://time.com/3829416/watch-lyrid-meteor-shower/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-21T12:42:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:29.124Z article:section: Science og:title: How to Watch the Lyrid Meteor Shower This Week og:description: The best time is just before dawn og:url: https://time.com/3829416/watch-lyrid-meteor-shower/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf74bb17b9b140e39/6987ec0a2dce011c529e16a3/lyrid-meteor-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2835 og:image:height: 1595 og:image:alt: The April Lyrids in Kutahya og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Watch the Lyrid Meteor Shower This Week twitter:description: The best time is just before dawn twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf74bb17b9b140e39/6987ec0a2dce011c529e16a3/lyrid-meteor-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How to Watch the Lyrid Meteor Shower This Week > Sponsored content. 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The April Lyrids, a meteor shower lasting from April 16 to April 26 each year, is seen over the ancient city of Aizanoi in Kutahya, Turkey on April 23, 2014. Fatma Selma Kocabas Aydin—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 21, 2015 12:42 PM UTC You won’t want to miss this week’s meteor shower, so here’s what you need to know. The annual Lyrid meteor shower occurs from April 16 to 25, but the best time to see it will be right before dawn on April 22 and 23, [according to Slooh](http://images.slooh.com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/press%5Frelease/Lyrid2015pr.pdf), an online observatory. This year’s shower promises to be especially good to watch because it coincides with a crescent moon, meaning the sky will be darker than usual. “This year the moon will be a waxing crescent only 1/15th the brightness of a full moon, and it will set early, allowing excellent dark sky conditions for this shower,” said Slooh astronomer Bob Berman in a [statement](http://images.slooh.com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/press%5Frelease/Lyrid2015pr.pdf). The best views will be in Europe, but people all across the globe should be able to catch some of the dazzling Lyrid fireballs by heading outside just before dawn. You can also watch a livestream of the meteor shower below, hosted by Slooh, beginning at 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday. _Read next:_ [_All That Glitters: 15 Breathtaking Photos of Meteor Showers_](http://time.com/3589927/beautiful-meteor-shower-photos/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ### See 15 Breathtaking Photos of Meteor Showers  A Perseid meteor shower at Chapel of Garioch, near Aberdeen on Aug. 12, 2013. Geoffrey Robinson—Rex USA  A bright Geminid meteor falls from the sky over the summit of 14,505 foot Mount Whitney in California's Sierra Nevada mountains on Dec. 14, 2011. Tony Rowell—Corbis  A multiple exposure of a Leonid meteor shower over Joshua Tree National Park. Tony Hallas—Science Faction/Corbis  Stonehenge during a Perseid meteor shower in Salisbury Plain, England on Aug. 13, 2013. Kieran Doherty—Reuters/Corbis  A Perseid meteor shower set against the Milky Way in Sebastopol, Calif., on Aug. 12, 2010. Ethan T. Allen—Zuma Press  Framed within Mobuis Arch, a Geminid meteor streaks through a starfilled sky above the Sierra Nevada mountains in California's Eastern Sierra on Dec. 14, 2011. Tony Rowell—Corbis  A Leonid meteor shower, centered on Polaris, the North Star. The smoky residue of the meteor trails have been blown by upper atmospheric wind. The color shift is due to the meteoroid burning. Tony Hallas—Science Faction/Corbis  A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky over the Lovell Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank on Aug. 13, 2013 in Holmes Chapel, England. Christopher Furlong—Getty Images  A Perseid meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Kuklici, known for its hundreds of naturally formed stones, near Kratovo, east of Skopje, on Aug. 13, 2012. Ognen Teofilovski—Reuters  A multiple exposure of a Leonid meteor shower. Tony Hallas—Science Faction/Corbis  Perseid meteors streak across the sky through star trails over Cathedral Gorge State Park in this long exposure on Aug. 12, 2013. David Becker—Zuma Press  Geminid meteors streak across the sky behind a barn in western Iowa on Dec. 12, 2012. Mike Hollingshead—Corbis  Three Perseid meteors appear in the predawn sky over Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada on Aug. 12, 2012. Alan Dyer—Visuals Unlimited/Corbis  A Perseid meteor (top) and the trail of an jet airplane converge over the cliff walls of Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas on Aug. 11, 2009. David Becker—Reuters  This 15-minute long exposure shows stars and meteors during the Perseid meteor shower in Imjingak Pyeonghwa-Nuri park in Paju, South Korea, on Aug. 13, 2013. 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